MIKAEL HED, founder of Rovio, the games studio behind the phenomenally successful Angry Birds, and Christopher Poole, the entrepreneur who established the 4Chan message boards, often considered the breeding ground for the Anonymous hacker group, are among the latest additions to the Dublin Web Summit which takes place in the RDS next month.
Since launching on the iPhone in 2009, Angry Birdshas been downloaded more than 300 million times and has generated a profitable side line in merchandising spin-offs and film tie-ins.
Although best known as the founder of the 4Chan boards, Poole (20) this year launched Canv.as an image-sharing website.
The conference, which will accommodate 1,000 attendees, has also added Michael O’Toole, global head of enterprise technology operations for Morgan Stanley, and David Shing, AOL’s “digital prophet”, to the line-up.
Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube and Eric Ly, a co-founder of LinkedIn, have previously been confirmed as headline speakers.
Once again the summit will run in parallel with the exclusive F.ounders conference, which will be attended by 100 internet entrepreneurs from around the world.
It has been reported that Seán Parker, the controversial former president of Facebook, who was played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Networkfilm, will be one of the main guests at F.ounders. Daire Hickey, a spokesman for Dublin Web Summit, would not confirm if Mr Parker would be attending.
Mr Parker is a director of music-streaming service Spotify and is understood to spend much of his time in London.
